Savvy Katham

Lean / Agile Coach

SubWay

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Savvy believes that empowered leaders drive the success in any field and sees coaching and guiding as an opportunity to bring out intrinsic qualities of people who are working in highly challenging environments. A passionate Agilista who had trained, mentored and coached teams and organizations to reap benefits from Agile. Savvy has spoken in various conferences on Agile. If she’s not thinking about Agile, she thinks about numbers. Data analytics is her immediate next passion and her strengths include execution of data analytics strategy, process, and tools in an organization. Savvy has been exposed to various phases of software development life cycle from all through her career across various technology and service sectors. She’s grateful for getting different kinds of assignments that had honed her career. Savvy speaks in Agile and Data conferences. Savvy enjoys providing career guidance in all streams and loves yoga.

People deliver. Period. However, if people are understood they will deliver MORE.

Empathy Map game focuses on understanding teams (people) and their thoughts and taking necessary action as needed. It helps teams to express emotions that they encounter through out the project execution.

This game can be played with different audiences with the variation in the situation.

How is a persona looking at the product?

How is a team member feeling about the development of a product?

Information:

A drawing is given to each table that contains Think and Feel? , Hear?, See? Say and Do?, Pain

and Gain

A situation is given to all attendees.

Attendees have to put their write-up stickies under each category mentioned above.

Learning outcomes:

Creates an open environment to brainstorm about a product or a feature

It helps to understand personas

Target Audience:

All stakeholders who would like to take understand personas and incorporate the feedback in a product.

Agile execution has a time boxed delivery schedules. As teams swim through from one sprint to another, it is important to take a necessary break to retrospect how teams are doing. This little time spent with teams would help in a big way. Speed boat game helps teams to express their emotions and experiences on how the project is moving. This game brings out opportunities to look into, best moments that can be continued and wonderful things that can be put to rest.

In addition, this game can be played to bring out new ideas on product development too. However, the session focuses only on retrospection due to time constraints.